The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-04-06
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.


Is only twenty-three.
The colleges of this country contain
1 900 female students.
A man in Polk County, Georgia, is
living pleasantly with his eighth wife.
Queen Margherita, of Italy, has a
strong preference for women physicians.
A new process of deodorizing furs
makes certain kinds much more desir-
able.
A fashionable wedding present is a
door-plate with the bridegroom's name
on it.
The census of 1880 showed there were
4,779 Chinese women and girls in the
United States.
In Paris there are 400, 900 unmarried
men and only $50 600 married, while
there are 416, 600 unmarried women.
Coston signal lights used on the trans
Atlantic steamers are the invention of a
woman, who has made something of a
fortune.
The darlx-eyed Senoras and Senoritas
who patronize the great Talon Theatre,
at Havana, wear flowers upon their heads
instead of chimney-pot hats.
The Danes assure maidens, upon pay
ment of an annual sum, Of comfortable
home at a certain age. The benefits of
the association cease at marriage.
Washington young ladies love to go
marketing, and it is said that the idea
gained favor from the fact that Senator
once met his future bride that way.
Old earrings which were worn by
Duchesses and other grand ladies who
lived in former times and used as pend
ants on a black ribbon is the latest fad.
An order has been received by firm in
Lyons, France, from London, for $500,
600 handkerchiefs with Queen Victoria's
picture on them for the occasion of her
golden jubilee"
Whistling is very much in demand in
Boston. A certain pretty girl who is said
to have "a charming mouth for whistling"
is making rather good little income,
whistling for private parties.
Five young women are studying in the
law department in Michigan University
this year. One of them is the daughter
of prominent lawyer in the Sandwich
Islands. She intends to practice her pro-
fession in her native land.
Miss Kate Dickson, the daughter of
wealthy Pittsburg coal operator, who has
Just married Robert Downing, the Comp
troller of the Pennsylvania Railroad, is
twenty-three, handsome and accomplish
ed, while her husband is sixty-fvc.
Among the novel toilets worn by Ia
dies at a recent Washington reception
was a white dress worn by an Admiral's
daughter, the front of which was hung
with golden bells, and another was en-
broidered with a flight of golden swal-
lows.
Miss Augusta Klumpke, of California,
who is a student of medicine at the Paris
Medical School, has just been appointed
house surgeon in the hospitals of that city.
This is the first instance of woman re-
ceiving this honor and it was won in the
face of the most bitter opposition.
1t is gossiped that the string Of pearls
recently worn at the opera in New York
by Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt attracted
great attention. 1t consists of 346 ORR
entail pearls, set in golden chain, which
belonged to the Empress Eugene, and
which was recently purchased for $780,
900.
Patti was recently dining, when some
one complimented her because of her
beautiful mouth. 'It is a very good
mouth, said she, laughing, land as large
as you please"-proving her assertion by
closing her teeth over large boiled egg
in the shell, removing it a second after
ward unbroken.
They have a curious way of settling
matrimonial disputes in Nepaul, India.
On plain is a standard. When wife
wants a divorce from her husband she is
given a fair start and has to run across
the plain. Her better half chases her
with kookree. If the woman reaches
the standard first, she obtains dissolu-
tiOn of her marriage If she doesn't get
to the post at all, it is because her hus-
band has caught her and cut her down.
The New York Mail and Express says
The head of one of the great drygoods
firms was asked the other day if he could
give any idea of the yearly aggregates of
the bill of his heaviest customers. Twen-
ty-fve thousand dollars, he said, one
woman had spent with him within a
twelvemonth, and several others had
grown poorer to the extent of $40, 900 OF
$15, 900. Thirty thousand dollars is not
unheard of as the price of the dress and
toilet equipments Of an extravagant city's
extravagant DANES.
At many of the weddings lately French
brides have adopted fashion which is
always followed by royal ladies in Eng
land, viz: To wear the veil off the face
They do not fasten it so often with dia
monds as in England, but two bands o.
orange blossoms now frequently keep i
in place. Lace, especially old lace
never shows better than on pale yellow
satin. Pink woolen gowns, trimmed
with velvet, are much worn by youns
| people, velvet being the one fabric whicl
is most employed for trimmings of al
I kinds whether it be in simple galoons O
perforated ones, outlined with gold, O
mere bands
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